Angel investor Anne de Kerckhove joins UK’s Moneyhub as board chair
Open finance and data platform Moneyhub has hired “experienced international executive” and angel investor Anne de Kerckhove as its new board chair.
Anne de Kerckhove named chair of Moneyhub (Image: LinkedIn)
The new chair brings to the role “over 20 years leading some of the fastest-growing and scaling B2B and B2C technology, data, media, e-commerce and entertainment companies in Europe”, according to a statement.
This includes her current tenures as a non-executive director of betting company 888-William Hill, digital promotions and loyalty solutions provider Eagle Eye, and cloud video editing and publishing platform Blackbird.
Moreover, de Kerckhove also serves as an angel investor, mentor and limited partner to “over 20 start-ups and entrepreneurial funds”, including Nigerian fintech unicorn Flutterwave, and claims to be “actively involved in promoting women, both on boards and within the technology industry”.
In comments, de Kerckhove says she enjoys “nurturing stakeholder relations and creating a supportive and challenging board with both executive teams and shareholders”.
She is to succeed Rael Gordon, who has made “an invaluable contribution” to the platform over the last six years and will now transition into a non-executive director role, Moneyhub’s statement continues.
The restructuring and chair appointment, made after “a rigorous process, with over 250 applicants”, now means that Moneyhub retains a female CEO, CFO and chair, and a board where 60% of members are women.
CEO Samantha Seaton says the new chair’s “experience, ethos and desire to ensure that open banking, open finance and open data is capitalised on as a force for good” aligns with the platform’s own values, and expects her “transparent approach” to be “well received by our team, our customers and the market”.
De Kerckhove adds: “Moneyhub is uniquely fundamental to businesses where a data driven customer experience is required. As a result the market for Moneyhub is enormous and I am excited to help make the most of this opportunity.”
